One Track
"We are better situated to make use of a variety of sources of free energy, rather than totally relying on the huge monopoly that is the oil and gas industry, to provide what is essentially, a single energy source. Besides, nothing would please me more than telling the Arabs to shove their oil. I have already reduced my home electricity bill to less than $150 a year with solar panels."
A single energy source is always dangerous but so is over reliance on wind and solar. Hence why some alternative - be it coal, oil, gas, hydro or nuclear is required for at least Peak demand if not normal demand.
"anti-windmill "activists"
It's quite OK for Greenies to protest against Hydro Electric dams on the basis it damages the land, even though it's clean, renewable energy but it's OK for them to change the rules to damage the land to install unsightly wind turbines on previously untouched ground and cause erosion of fragile ecosystems, not necessarily straight away but over time.
And all with Gov't subsidies of some sort at some point in the chain.
What makes them so special apart from being flavour of the month ?
Last edited by 500N; 2nd Sep 2014 at 04:16.